The Fool Killer by Helen Eustis (.ePUB)(.AZW3)
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The Fool Killer by Helen Eustis (1954)
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Overview: “. . . I ain’t a good boy,” says George Mellish, twelve-year-old hero of The Fool Killer. “Never was and never will be, and that’s for a fact. Some folks has thought I was bad, and some not so downright terrible, but nobody has never accused me of being outright good.”
But it appeared to George that what his foster parents wanted was some kind of angel like what you read about in Sunday school stories, so, after one licking too many, he ran away.
The time was shortly after the Civil War, the place was rural America, so naturally George started West to seek his fortune. But strange people and strange events kept him from getting there: Dirty Jim Jelliman, who hadn’t done a thing he didn’t want to since his wife died; Blessing Angelina Fanshawe, who warned George she might pick his eyes out with a fork; Milo Bogardus, who had borrowed his name from a dead man after he was wounded in the war and forgot everything that had gone before.
And the Fool Killer, too. Because once George heard the story of that great big fellow who went round with a chopper for chopping fools, he couldn’t get him out of his mind, or decide whether he was a tale or real.
. . . Especially not after the camp-meeting preacher was murdered on the same night that George got saved.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller > Post-Civil War America
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